Sails is going 1.0! and Docker: Up into the Swarm

Spanning Cloud Apps is generously supporting an evening with Mike McNeil and Gabriel Schenker.

Mike will demonstrate the brand new release of the Sails framework and Waterline ORM, and show how to take advantage of some of the new features like strong data types and support for SQL transactions. He'll also discuss a few of the lessons and weird tricks he and the rest of the team learned along the way, including:

• the secret power of assertions (make your Node.js packages more stable, and faster to debug)
• the quickest way to run real-world benchmarks on your app or module (see how it performs at scale)
• three "low-hanging fruit" performance gotchas (avoid pitfalls and take advantage of V8 optimizations)

Gabriel is going to demonstrate how to containerize an existing Node JS application and deploy it to a Docker Swarm. He is also going to show how to setup the environment to reduce friction in the development process and how to make an application secure using secrets.

About Mike:

Mike is an open-source developer based in Austin, TX, and the creator of Sails.js, a popular MVC framework for Node.js. He is also the CEO and founder of The Sails Company, a full-service studio that helps companies build custom, enterprise-grade web & mobile applications.

Sails.js (http://sailsjs.com/about) | About The Sails Company

About Gabriel:
Gabriel N. Schenker started his career as a physicist. Following his passion and interest in stars and the universe he chose to write his Ph.D. thesis in astrophysics. Soon after this he dedicated all his time to his second passion, writing and architecting software. Gabriel has since been working for over 25 years as a consultant, software architect, trainer. He has been nominated a Docker Captain and since January of this year he is working as Principal Curriculum Developer at Docker Inc. Gabriel is working from home in Austin, Texas. Gabriel is passionate about software development and tries to make the life of developers easier by providing guidelines and frameworks to reduce friction in the software development process. During his spare time Gabriel likes hiking in the mountains, cooking and reading.